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Definition: Glutamine |
GlutamineNoun1. A crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A non-essential amino acid present abundantly throught the body and is involved in many metabolic processes. It is synthesized from glutamic acid and ammonia. It is the principal carrier of nitrogen in the body and is an important energy source for many cells. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Glutamine is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids on Earth.
It has been suggested glutamine is utilized at a higher than normal rate in people living with diseases that strain the immune system, such as HIV. Glutamine is used in the digestive process and a deficiency may contribute to wasting.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Glutamine."
Crosswords: Glutamine |
| Specialty definitions using "glutamine": Amidophosphoribosyltransferase, Anthranilate Synthase, Azaserine ♦ Glutamate Synthase ♦ Protein-Glutamine gamma-Glutamyltransferase ♦ RNA, Transfer, Gln. (references) |
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Health | The repeated CAG sequence in the gene causes an abnormal form of huntingtin to be made, in which the amino acid glutamine is repeated. (references) | |
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| "Glutamine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.72% of the time. "Glutamine" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.72% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "glutamine": Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases with Glutamine as Amide-N-Donor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "glutamine": Glutamine-Fructose-6-Phosphate Transaminase (Isomerizing), glutamine-rich. | |
Ending with "glutamine": l-glutamine. | |
Containing "glutamine": Protein-Glutamine gamma-Glutamyltransferase. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "glutamine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 谷氨酰胺. (various references) | |
Danish | glutamin. (various references) | |
Dutch | glutamine. (various references) | |
Finnish | glutamiini. (various references) | |
French | glutamine. (various references) | |
German | Glutamin. (various references) | |
Greek | γλουταμίνη. (various references) | |
Italian | glutammina. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | グルクロン酸 (Georgia, glucose, glucuronic acid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | グルタミン . (various references) | |
Korean | 글루타민. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utamineglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glutamina. (various references) | |
Spanish | glutamina. (various references) | |
Swedish | glutamin. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glutamine": glutamines. (additional references) | |
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"Glutamine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glutamin, glutanime. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: emulating. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-m-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: gunmetal, ligament, metaling, multiage, tegminal, tegumina, umangite. | |
-2 letters: ailment, aliment, alumine, alunite, atingle, augment, elating, eluting, gelatin, geminal, genital, languet, legumin, linguae, malting, mauling, melting, mintage, mutagen, teaming, tegmina, unagile, unitage. | |
-3 letters: aiglet, alumin, alumni, amulet, augite, auntie, eating, eluant, englut, enigma, entail, etamin, gamine, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, gimlet, glutei, gluten, guinea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-m-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: glutamines, multirange. | |
+2 letters: glutaminase, ligamentous, multiagency. | |
+3 letters: demodulating, emasculating, glutaminases, languishment, magniloquent, multimegaton. | |
+4 letters: hemagglutinin, languishments, misevaluating, multimegatons, multiregional, mutagenically, perambulating, reformulating, restimulating, somersaulting, troublemaking, unmitigatedly. | |
+5 letters: hemagglutinate, hemagglutinins, magniloquently, metalinguistic, mulligatawnies, osmoregulation, pneumatologies, preformulating, summersaulting, troublemakings. | |
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